In the past, it was fine to simply call
dev_kfree_skb when it was impossible to
transmit a skb. However, with the new
tx status API:
"mac80211: implement wifi TX status"
Every loose skb needs to be handed back
to mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jussi Kivilinna [Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:04:05 +0000 (13:04 +0200)]
rndis_wlan: split getting current channel to separate function
Split getting current channel channel from hardware to separate function
as this function will be needed later in patch 'pass channel info to
cfg80211_roamed()'.
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ben Greear [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:32:00 +0000 (11:32 -0800)]
mac80211: Support ht-cap over-rides.
This implements ht-cap over-rides for mac80211 drivers.
HT may be disabled, making an /a/b/g/n station act like an
a/b/g station. HT40 may be disabled forcing the station to
be HT20 even if the AP and local hardware support HT40.
MAX-AMSDU may be disabled.
AMPDU-Density may be increased.
AMPDU-Factor may be decreased.
This has been successfully tested with ath9k using patched
wpa_supplicant and iw.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ben Greear [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:31:59 +0000 (11:31 -0800)]
wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides.
This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40,
and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for
drivers that support it.
The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are
are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask.
Attemping to disable features that are not supported will
take no affect, but will not return errors. This is to aid
backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be
clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask.
This patch only enables the infrastructure. An additional
patch will enable the feature in mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:54:50 +0000 (16:54 +0100)]
cfg80211/mac80211: Revert "move information element parsing logic to cfg80211"
No other driver ever ended up using this, and
the commit forgot to move the prototype so no
driver could have used it. Revert it, if any
driver shows up and needs it it can be moved
again, but until then it's more efficient to
have it in mac80211 where the only user is.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:33:48 +0000 (15:33 +0100)]
cfg80211: add flags for off-channel capabilities
Currently mac80211 implements these for all devices,
but given restrictions of some devices that isn't
really true, so prepare for being able to remove the
capability for some mac80211 devices.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
iwlwifi: tid_data is taken twice in iwl_trans_pcie_tx_agg_alloc
Remove this redundancy.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the CPUed version of the variables when printing data from the
BA notification.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some information was redundation, other was missing.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add more information when a queue is stuck and actually get
information from the scheduler instead of looking at internal
variables.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger [Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:14:44 +0000 (12:14 -0600)]
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix endianian issues
Driver rtlwifi fails on a big-endian host.
These changes have been tested on a Mac PowerBook G4, which has
a PPC processor.
Although this patch touches some of the code that will affect endian
issues on PCI hardware through drivers rtl8192ce, rtl8192se, and
rtl8192de, these have not been tested due to lack of suitable hardware.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger [Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:14:43 +0000 (12:14 -0600)]
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Change firmware upload to use block writes
Driver rtl8192cu writes the firmware with 32-bit asynchronous writes. This
design is OK for USB 2.0 adapters, but the current implementation of
xhcu-hcd has a limited ring size, which is exceeded. By converting to
synchronous block writes, this error is avoided.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
George [Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:14:42 +0000 (12:14 -0600)]
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Allow retries for USB I/O
The USB driver does not retry reads - allow 10 tries.
Signed-off-by: George <george0505@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:02:47 +0000 (16:02 +0100)]
mac80211: transmit fragment list to drivers
Drivers can usually handle fragmented packets
much easier when they get the entire list of
fragments at once. The only thing they need to
do is keep enough space on the queues for up
to ten fragments of a single MSDU.
This allows them to implement this with a new
operation tx_frags.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:28:57 +0000 (15:28 +0100)]
mac80211: make TX LED handling independent of fragmentation
This just prepares for passing the entire fragment
list to the driver. No significant changes, but the
TX throughput is calculated slightly differently
now and we blink only once for each MSDU.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:28:55 +0000 (15:28 +0100)]
mac80211: use skb list for fragments
We are currently linking the skbs by using skb->next
directly. This works, but the preferred way is to use
a struct sk_buff_head instead. That also prepares for
passing that to drivers directly.
While at it I noticed we calculate the duration for
fragments twice -- remove one of them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Zefir Kurtisi [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:09:44 +0000 (11:09 +0100)]
ath9k: trivial: reorder rx_tasklet processing
DFS events are reported as PHY errors and need to be processed
with a correct timestamp set before ath9k_skb_preprocess() is
called and the frame is possibly dropped.
This patch puts the rxs->mactime calculation before the skb
is preprocessed to prepare for DFS event reporting.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211: process regulatory DFS region for countries
The wireless-regdb now has support for mapping a country to
one DFS region. CRDA sends this to us now so process it
so we can provide that hint to drivers. This will later be
used by code for processing DFS in a way that meets the
criteria for the DFS region the country belongs to.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Michael Büsch [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:51:20 +0000 (23:51 +0100)]
p54spi: Remove FIXME in op_stop
Don't use the interruptible variant of mutex_lock(). It doesn't really
need to be interruptible. This avoids nasty error handling.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:34:55 +0000 (13:34 +0100)]
mac80211: call ieee80211_recalc_idle() after sending packets
Some drivers (e.g. ath9k) assume that it's safe to go into low-power mode
immediately after the idle state changes. To support that, mac80211 even
calls drv_flush() before that happens.
In some instances, mac80211 sent a packet right after recalculating the
idle state, this patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Patrick Kelle [Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:44:48 +0000 (16:44 +0100)]
minstrel_ht: Remove unused function parameters
Remove unused function parameters in the following functions:
minstrel_calc_rate_ewma()
minstrel_ht_calc_tp()
minstrel_aggr_check()
minstrel_ht_set_rate()
Signed-off-by: Patrick Kelle <patrick.kelle81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Helmut Schaa [Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:28:20 +0000 (15:28 +0100)]
mac80211: Get rid of search loop for rate group index
Finding the group index for a specific rate is done by looping through
all groups and returning if the correct one is found. This code is
called for each tx'ed frame and thus it makes sense to reduce its
runtime.
Do this by calculating the group index by this formula based on the SGI
and HT40 flags as well as the stream number:
Hence, the groups are ordered by th HT40 flag first, then by the SGI
flag and afterwards by the number of used streams.
This should reduce the runtime of minstrel_ht_get_group_idx
considerable.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Helmut Schaa [Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:28:19 +0000 (15:28 +0100)]
mac80211: Check rate->idx before rate->count
The drivers are not required to fill in rate->count if rate->idx is set
to -1. Hence, we should first check rate->idx before accessing
rate->count.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:02:44 +0000 (15:02 +0100)]
mac80211: remove crypto special case for auth frames
The shared key authentication frame that needs to be
encrypted (the third one in the shared key handshake)
is directly encrypted in ieee80211_send_auth and the
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT is set. All others
are not encrypted, so the only way to get to this is
erroneously on no-monitor AP side.
Remove the special case for authentication frames to
fix the AP shared key side when operating without
cooked monitor interfaces -- with cooked monitor the
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT also gets set, so we
never get here -- an AP never encrypts auth frames.
Without this patch, an AP operating in WEP mode with
my no-monitor patches would erroneously encrypt all
authentication frames, instead of none.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Joe Perches [Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:41:04 +0000 (11:41 -0800)]
brcmsmac: Use current logging styles
Add and use pr_fmt and pr_<level>
Remove useless double parentheses from macros.
Remove function names from format strings, add to pr_debug use.
Coalesce formats.
Remove uncompileable undeclared variable in a DMA_NONE use.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: Remove enabling btcoex from stomp type change
This patch removes btcoex_enable from stomp type change and let
it be called from callee functions that makes the code can be
reusable for MCI changes.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>